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It’s so nice out today. We need recess for all

Hey @bsidesprg.bsky.social 👋 EFF Director of Cybersecurity @evacide.bsky.social is going to be at the conference on April 23 for a keynote presentation! www.eff.org/event/bside...

It is really weird to me when people don’t like reading and books. I get not having enough time to read. I get wanting to read more, but there are just too many distractions around you. Obviously, I get having disabilities that make it difficult to read. But just not liking books? Who are you?

I will never stop being amazed at the incredibly cool shit people make with Lego

“I support Newsom having equal access to everything but oxygen.”

on the one hand I am sad that alysa liu withdrew from skating worlds because I want to see her programs on the other hand: take a nap and get that bag, girl

Spell like no one is watching.

DEI for conservatives is working out so great that we can't tell you how great it is working out.

"German style Kosch Ale"

we are weeks away from 'Trump attempts to make horse a Senator' and the only thing stopping him is that he is too much of a sociopath to form an attachment to animals

A response to someone on adult labels, but explaining some of the work ahead on this front for 2026.

i think this is absolutely what the tech overlords largely believe

indeed, Bluesky's inherent overall hostility to AI means that the AI enthusiasts still willing to hang out here are usually far smarter and more thoughtful than the absolute dribbling freakshow AI cultists who dominate Twitter/X

A couple years ago, I reconnected with my old HS English teacher and sent him some of my published work and his initial response was: "Clearly your skill with the English language has improved since you were in my class."

Data brokers &Big Tech can do almost anything they want with our personal info. These practices endanger all of us! Join our friends at @aclum.bsky.social in pressuring lawmakers to put the safety of the public over Big Tech profit 👇 mobilize.aclum.org/a/pass-enfor...

According to this, there are about 45K Muslims in the greater Nashville Area, which includes the 5th District of TN. www.newschannel5.com/news/islamic....

If a Democrat anywhere says something even marginally controversial, Republicans solidify to categorize it as the position of the Democratic Party as a whole, publicize it, and so on. I sincerely have no idea why Democrats don't do the same about bigotry and religious intolerance by Republicans

Offense and defense!

Something I hadn't thought about when writing this. ALL THE GULF STATES KNOW WE'RE LYING ABOUT THE WAR AND BIBI HAS US BY THE NOSTRILS? Turns out that really fucking matters.

feels like we're soon going to be seeing a lot more people who have gone all-in on AI grappling with "you're almost certainly going to end up liable for massive fuck-ups based on your work that incorporated GenAI, not the company who made the GenAI software that you used."

How do you ask someone to be the last person to die for a ¯\_(ツ)_/¯?

who called it wearing suspenders and not comeuppants

Trump says he’s “nowhere near” deciding whether to send US troops into Iran to secure the stockpile of highly enriched uranium there. (This strong public denial could also mean that plans to do so are underway.)

I finished reading Charlottesville by Deborah Baker I still wonder if A12 marks the dawn of the wicked or the twilight of the good.

The Trump administration heralds the Iran War as a Not-Woke War. Here’s what that means in practice.

Giving government agencies tens of billions in new resources without a clear sense of how to use the money is a recipe for actual waste, fraud and corruption

pro tip for AI enthusiasts who want people to stop being mean to them: maybe stop talking about how it's going to take everybody's jobs all the time (and if you really do believe that, then 1. consider how that'll come off to the people whose jobs will be lost and 2. become a UBI stan)

a healthy Tatum coming back means this season is a success no matter what but the Celtics really do look like title contenders now and it rules side note: Hugo Gonzalez is going to be a star someday

Kobach has spent much of his career adding real administrative burdens to deal with imaginary threats. He was a pioneer of the policy of adding citizenship documentation requirements to voting that we see in the SAVE Act.

AI enthusiasts should really grapple with the fact that their fellow Americans would probably be a lot less mean to them on the Internet if our country actually had a semi-functional social safety net.

extremely good piece from @samleecole.bsky.social: www.404media.co/ai-psychosis...

1. Trump 2.0 and LLM/GenAI technology becoming huge at the same time in history feels deeply cursed. 2. I think a lot about if Trump and GenAI hitting at about the same time was accidental or correlated, and I'm strongly leaning towards 'correlated, albeit in complex ways we're still puzzling out.'

Tesla “full self-driving” is still crashing through railroad crossing gates (source: www.threads.com/@laushiinla/...)

They're planning concentration camps. Ordinary people are shutting them down.

I remain fascinated by people who are 100% all-in on using LLMs at their jobs (and telling everyone that they're doing it) and who appear to have never paused to consider "what value am I personally adding in here, at this point, and why do I think my employers won't eventually figure this out"

I think this is not just consultant and donor brain. It's Sacramento brain. If I take away a little something, it signals I'm serious WHEN IT DOES THE EXACT FUCKING OPPOSITE.

It looks like whatever is growing on Trump’s neck

yep, i am 1. extremely passionate about pushing back on the insane and deadly ways in which horrible people are trying to use LLMs to harm and impoverish vast numbers of innocents. and 2. 'LLMs are useless' is a bad argument which will not help us effectively fight the forces of big tech evil.

LISTEN: Cindy Cohn joins the @techpolicypress.bsky.social podcast to discuss preparing to leave EFF while telling her story to the world and trying to recruit a new generation to the fight for digital privacy with her new book, “Privacy’s Defender.” www.techpolicy.press/cindy-cohn-...

but Doctor, I am A Human

whenever you say a technology is just a tool, know that somewhere a science and technology studies specialist's eye has started involuntarily twitching

Was it Maya Angelou who said, when people explain to you for the 55th time before brunch that they don't believe anyone but white, rich, fundamentalist men should have real rights, maybe believe them?

also a very good insight about why The People Don't Think New Tech like LLMs Are Cool Anymore (and yes, I'm speaking very broadly)

exactly - I think another reason why AI enthusiasts piss a lot of people off is because they often excitedly speak about these technologies as if they exist in a context-free vacuum, while for non-enthusiasts, the often-terrifying *context* in which AI exists is of way more importance and interest.

From my POV, this current moment is the first I can remember where I genuinely can't come up with a good "well, your current industry is boned, but this OTHER industry/profession is still doing really well, so you can pivot to that" answer. I suspect I'm not alone in that, and that's scary.

so uhhh can anybody recommend a supercheap small scale AC

If you receive a signal message from someone claiming to be me and it doesn't have a picture of a half naked older Italian man on the beach as its profile picture, it isn't me.

if you're wondering what this means for the water situation this year, the answer involves a lot of hyperventilating

Israel's UN ambassador says the new Ayatollah Khamenei will be targeted:

Not Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach linking to my Bluesky post in his response to the ACLU's request for a temporary restraining order to block the state's invalidation of trans people's driver's licenses

I wrote this thread at 3 AM at the airport to express some stuff I had rattling around in my head, and it is fascinating how many responses I've got from people who are mad said thread did not include every single dimension and aspect of LLM/AI critique. it's a Bluesky thread, not an academic book

Come for the fiery takedown of the US' founding myth, stay for the Princess Bride clip.

MAGA: Paying more on gas for Israel

4th quintile represent!

For my newsletter, I wrote about the Iranian national myth that their country's culture civilizes its conquerors and how the US will never abandon its tradition of violence and blood. www.burnsnotice.com/the-us-will-...

feels like insanity is catching these days

TPM's coverage has anticipated some of the biggest stories of the second Trump administration. @joshkovensky.bsky.social predicted the occupation of blue cities, and was early to highlight Greg Bovino as the posterchild for Trump's immigration crackdown. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/greg-bo...

The OpenAI/Crusoe post by "Michael Su" is more than likely fake, and I've reached out to OpenAI to confirm. Image comes up as deepfaked in a scanner (questionable reliability but it's a data point), his URL is "michaelsermon" on LinkedIn, can't find history for him at any company he worked at.

Just a couple of years ago, the Wisconsin Supreme Court was a rubberstamp for GOP policies. Liberals could easily get to 5-2 with an election this year to replace Rebecca Bradley. An off-year election in 2027 is harder, but Ziegler retiring makes a previously unthinkable 6-1 split look possible.

This is a fascinating conversation with the reporter who knows the most about Roblox, an often misunderstood platform that is so much more significant than many think Watch, subscribe here for conversations like this every week: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rP6h...

that OpenAI/Crusoe linkedin post is too good to be true, gonna go chase it down

was scheduled to have my gutters replaced today. after about 45 minutes i hadn’t heard anyone on our roof. glanced outside - they had gone to the wrong house and were about halfway through ripping off my neighbor’s gutters.

Saudi Aramco reducing output, per sources

President Erdogan of Turkey says their “main goal” is to keep Turkey out of the Iran War.

Michael Su, OpenAI's Head of AI Safety and Red Teaming, said that "...after lengthy discussions, this expansion plan has been cancelled due to financing issues and our evolving needs." Who's financing issues? Oracle's? OpenAI's? Meta isn't the tenant yet? What? www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

they should invent spam text messages that are opt-in

he guesses their size and then they have to wear the shoes.

Israel has also used white phosphorous in Gaza.

If you watched Love Story, you may not know that JFK Jr. & Carolyn Bessette’s first dance was Prince’s “Forever In My Life”, something that amused him enough that he mentioned it to Oprah. (At 31:40 here.) youtu.be/3i8uedhlR-w?...

I truly don’t know how this is the case, but my cutie little medical foster I posted a while ago is still up for adoption at East Bay SPCA. Someone go snap Cerulean up!

If you want to know why Maine Democrats are supporting this guy despite the red flags, this is it

Think we may have lost the moral high ground when it comes to dispensing refugee advice to other countries. More broadly, the US has been simultaneously telling Europe it is destroying itself by accepting refugees from the Middle East, and also setting the scene for the next refugee criss.

so the new guy is a hardliner, and also Trump/Israel murdered his father, wife, and child apnews.com/article/iran...

19 percent, christ. and that not counting eg the Twitter purchase www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/u...

I slept for almost 10 hours last night, damn.

Happening this week! Please join us in person in Ann Arbor at the Ford School at 4.30 on Wednesday. Event will also be recorded.

the best analysis money can buy and they’re all getting circles run around them by “orange man bad”

La EFF advierte a los legisladores de Wisconsin sobre los graves peligros de intentar prohibir o restringir el uso de redes privadas virtuales (VPN), destacando cómo estas medidas amenazan la seguridad digital y el acceso libre a la información. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

yesterday i saw a bunch of guerrilla marketing posters pasted up promoting New York Yankees spring training tickets and never in my life have I ever seen the Yankees have to do marketing for spring training tickets but I guess that's how disinterested people are in the team without Aaron Judge?

Oh! I almost forgot to share #coffeewithhunter with you all! It's been a hectic morning! This was my first cup. What's everyone drinking?

When I was at Ohio State last fall, I heard some really grim stories about this guy's tenure.

I just sent this email to the news director at NBC4 Washington about the unprofessional and disrespectful way they handled publishing the body camera footage of the DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace that was obtained via my FOIA lawsuit:

it's at burnsnotice.com or patreon.com/katelynburns, whichever you prefer, it's the same content on both.

No one else is doing this. So we must. I’m inviting you to be a part of this attempt to save us from Elon’s fuckery that we didn’t have last time. www.patreon.com/LOLGOPStudio...

writing about the fucking war for my newsletter. subscribe for free so you don't miss it.

i don't know a thing about this film but i don't know if any movie that's five hours long, no matter how funny it is, can be labeled a Comedy

It's why he always goes bankrupt in the deepest sense. A few rounds of "Why has no one ever thought of this!?" followed by reality explaining why and him ignoring it.

There are even some reporters who've managed to fashion themselves as bold truthtelling podcasters despite spending years being soft on Elon and Facebook.

Hard to think of a greater "There's no accountabilty in this motherfucker" than Tony Blair. W. at least hides!

great set youtu.be/Y9lqx3v2-l8...

This is one I have a hard time with, and why I love following Mekka. I'm a Michigan protectionist when it comes to preserving good jobs, but for every other reason, this makes sense.

I have just successfully completed a thing I have been procrastinating for like 7 years because it was both irritating and not-urgent

Their expertise comes from listening to their dad drone on more than anyone

there was a physical barrier between men and women during prayer; women couldn't lead prayers and the women's section was often a tiny box in the back of the room. by age like 15 i was infuriated and by 21 i was done (and ive spent the ensuing 15 years unpacking the first 21)

Always such a bummer for some reason to realize he's just a basic bitch Republican

We thought the wallet inspector was just going to look for Obama's birth certificate and suddenly we're hunting neighbors for toilet paper again.

There’s no handbook or program for how to talk to a friend or family member who is falling into AI psychosis. So after many people contacted us clearly suffering from these delusions, we spoke to mental health experts. Here’s what they suggest: www.404media.co/ai-psychosis...

Amazingly, this is not the only boast that has eroded dramatically in two weeks. www.ms.now/opinion/trum...

this guy was defending Les Wexner last week, least surprising thing ever